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Need a standards body and/or need the Federal government to step in. No other way. Edit: Who will be the Betamax/HD DVD?

• maxerickson 6y ago
  CCS is from a standards body. The thing that isn't standard is turning on the juice.
• WorldMaker 6y ago
  As the article points out, according to Europe the Tesla proprietary charger is already the Betamax/HD-DVD. It's going to stick around for a lot longer in America because America doesn't have the guts to force the same requirement that Tesla follow the CCS standards like everyone else (because 4 out of 5 EV cars in America right now are Teslas and they can Apple their way past standards right now). The biggest fight right now is that all the networks of chargers are still so focused on being "Owner's Clubs" or "Private Clubs". "You can't charge here, we're Tesla Owners Only"; "You can't charge here, we're Rivian Owners Only"; "You can charge here if you signup for our newsletter, sacrifice at least one goat a month in the name of Xuul, and pay $15/month dues whether you charge here or not"; etc. There was some of all that in early gas stations, but today you just expect them to all have a credit card reader and not need to jump through a bunch of hoops and join a membership club just to gas. It's probably going to take some competitive fights (and seems unlikely the Federal government is willing to step in) to fix that.